Attractions of Chernihiv region

The local history museum of the city of Oster is located in the former mansion of Lieutenant General Volodymyr Solonyna, a representative of the Cossack-Starshin family.

The first director was the well-known public figure Anatoliy Rozanov.

Currently, the museum has more than 16,000 exhibits. In 9 halls there are expositions dedicated to the nature, history and culture of Prydesennya.

Museum employees also conduct tours of the territory of the ancient Rus settlement with a visit to the Yuryeva Bozhnytsia.

The city park of culture and recreation named after Taras Shevchenko in Novhorod-Siversky is located in the central part of the city, in front of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery.

Interesting unusual park sculptures of Soviet times. It is a monument of garden and park art of local importance.

The Kamyanytsya of Chernihiv colonel Pavlo Polubotko in Liubech is one of the few examples of stone civil architecture of the 18th century in Chernihiv region.

Previously, these lands belonged to Hetman Mazepa, but after his alliance with the Swedes, Peter handed over Ljubech to Colonel Polubotko for excellent service. Later, Polubotko became the commanding hetman of Ukraine, but as a result he was arrested and died in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The Polubotko Kamyanytsya was located on the territory of the old fortress at the post of Liubech (near the current cultural center). In 2012, the tenement house was completely restored, and a temporary exhibition of exhibits from the collection of the Chernihiv Historical Museum opened in the premises. It is planned to create a museum of the Cossack era and hetman Pavlo Polubotko.

Nearby, on the steep banks of the Dnipro River, the second of the two Liubech cave temples attributed to Antoniy Pechersky, the so-called Near Cave, was recently discovered. According to archaeologists, the temple was created in memory of Antoniy Pechersky in the 19th century on the territory of the park of Count Miloradovych's estate.

The People's Friendship Monument, popularly known as the "Three Sisters", was erected in 1975 on a high mound at the triple border junction of the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

Three roads lead from the monument to the automobile checkpoints "Senkivka" (Ukraine), "Novi Yurkovichi" (Russia) and "Veselovka" (Belarus).

The monument was designed by Homel architect Leonid Stukachov with the participation of Chernihiv architect Mezhenny. It consists of three pylons, girded with a wide bronze ring. The bas-reliefs depict episodes from the history of the three peoples.

Every year on the last Saturday of June, the International Festival "Slavic Unity" was held near the monument. After the beginning of the Russian occupation of Crimea and part of Donbas in 2014, the holiday was no longer held.

In 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed the Senkivka checkpoint and turned the Three Sisters monument into a firing position. On May 30 of the same year, the Russians blew up a section of the road near the Three Sisters monument on the Ukrainian side. In June 2022, the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration decided to remove the Three Sisters monument from the list of historical monuments of local importance.

The grave of scientist-beekeeper Petro Prokopovych is located on the outskirts of the village of Palchyky, where he opened a beekeeping school in 1830, previously founded by him in the neighboring village of Mytchenky.

Prokopovich is considered the founder of rational beekeeping and the inventor of the modern frame beehive.

A monument to Petro Prokopovych was erected on his grave in Palchyky in 2008, but the original sculpture was soon stolen. Two tombstones have been preserved (Prokopovych's successor Stepan Velykdan is buried nearby), a beautiful entrance has been equipped, and two beautiful gazebos have been built.

The Museum of the Foundation of Academician Petro Tronko was opened in the village of Vepryk in the country house of a close friend of the scientist-historian Anatoliy Serykov.

The main sections of the exposition: the magazine "Souvenirs of Ukraine" - a national project of Academician Petro Tronko; the family of the Decembrist Serhiy Volkonsky and the culture of Chernihiv Region; Petro Tronko's memorial room.

Chernihiv Museum of Modern Art "Plast-Art" opened in 2010 on the basis of one of the first non-state art galleries of Ukraine "Plast-Art", founded in 1994.

It is located in the historical center of Chernihiv in the premises of the regional art museum named after Hryhoriy Galagan in seven modernly equipped exhibition halls with a total area of ​​700 square meters.

The museum organizes many exhibition projects of various scales - from debut shows of novice artists to international festivals and conceptual expositions of famous masters in the techniques of painting, graphics, photography, sculpture, etc. Festivals of contemporary art are also held, which are aimed at presenting the work of the best contemporary artists, popularizing contemporary Ukrainian and foreign art, supporting young talented artists, sculptors, photographers.

Both personal and collective exhibitions were presented: by Mykhaylo Shemyakin, Feodosiy Humenyuk, Viktor Kovtun, Vasyl Lopata, Anatoliy Haydamaka, Petro Lebedyntsya, Leonid Bernat, Olha Solovyova, Nataliya Papirna, Oleksiy Kulakov, Mykola Nebylytsia, Anatoliy Furlet and many other famous artists.

"Pokrovsky Well" (Pokrovska krynytsya) in Novhorod-Siverskyi is called a source of pure spring water in the lower part of the city.

Local residents say that the spring used to hit the ground with a strong jet, which is why it was called a fountain.

The water from the spring is rich in silver, and it is attributed healing properties. In 2013, enthusiasts built a wooden pavilion over the spring and equipped a bathhouse.

The private local lore museum in Trostianets "Myslyvska Palanka" (Hunting Palanka) was started in his house by the local local historian Rostyslav Malyarenko.

The main exposition is dedicated to the history of the hetman family of Skoropadskyi, whose ancestral estate was Trostianets. In particular, a table, wall mirrors, a saber and other personal belongings of the Skoropadskyi family are presented.

Exhibits of the Scythian era, Chernyakhiv culture, and the period of Kyivan Rus, found on the outskirts of Trostianets, are also presented.

The owner conducts qualified tours of the Trostianets Dendrology Park and other surrounding attractions.

Fragments of the ramparts of the ancient Pryluky fortress have been preserved near the central square of the city, between Nezalezhnosti Street and Hoholya Street.

The Cossack fortress was built in Pryluky in the 17th century under the Vyshnevetsky princes on the basis of the fortifications of the ancient Rus settlement of Pryluky town. The fortress had strong oak walls with high hewn towers. A deep ditch stretched along the rampart, which was 10-12 meters high. The Vyshnevetsky Palace, the regimental office, the court, the town hall, the prison, the houses of the colonel and the regimental foreman were located on the territory. 

Of all the fortress buildings, except for earth ramparts and stone temples, the building of the regimental treasury, built at the beginning of the 18th century by Colonel Hnat Galagan, has survived. The remains of the ramparts of the Pryluky fortress can be seen at the far end of the central park. A monument to Volodymyr Monomakh has been erected here.

The railway station in Bakhmach, built in 1954 according to the project of the architect "Mosgiprotrans" Oleksandr Kulahin, is considered one of the most beautiful on the Konotop railway.

The building is made in a neo-Gothic style unusual for the region.

The steam locomotive Em736-17 is installed at the station.

The wooden building of the Railwaymen's club in the city of Snovsk was built in 1927 by master Leonid Veselov, who also built a railway station, a bridge and a church in the city.

The Snovsk railwaymen's club served as the scenery of the railway station during the filming of the Russian TV series "Heavy Sand", part of which takes place in pre-revolutionary Snovsk.

The Museum of Rare Books named after Hryhoriy Vasylkivskyi has been operating in Nizhyn since 1985 on the basis of the fundamental library of Mykola Hohol Nizhyn State University.

It is located on the second floor of the university library in the ancient building of the Merchants' Assembly in the center of the city of Nizhyn. The museum bears the name of one of its founders, Professor Hryhoriy Vasylkivskyi.

The library is based on 2,500 volumes of the personal book collection of Count Oleksandr Kushelyev-Bezborodko, who was a trustee of the Nizhyn Gymnasium of Higher Sciences, the predecessor of the current university.

The exposition presents many unique European and Slavic editions of the 16th - early 20th centuries, including rare copies of editions of the works of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (Venice, 1513), Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" (1544), "Aeneid" Virgil (1567), classic editions of the works of European thinkers of the 16th-18th centuries.

The special pride of the museum is the Holy Gospel of 1689 from the Nizhyn Annunciation Monastery, a gift of Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky. The huge tome weighs almost 18 kilograms, some pages are painted by hand, the titles are gilded.

The two-story building of the Regimental Office is located in Kozelets in the park behind the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin.

It was built almost simultaneously with the cathedral by the same architects - Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky and Andriy Kvasov. At that time, the Kozelets Hundred of the Kyiv Regiment was located in Kozelets, and the regimental office - the headquarters of the regiment - was also located there.

In the future, the building performed the functions of the Kozelets magistrate. Now it is the central library of Kozelets.

The building of the regimental treasury is the only preserved stone fortification structure of the Pryluky fortress, the oldest civil structure in the city.

A small tenement for storing Cossack valuables, cleynods and weapons was built near his house by the Zaporizhzhia colonel Hnat Galagan, who rose under Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and later in the service of Tsar Peter I.

The rectangular structure with walls one meter thick has deep basements. The ends are crowned with baroque pediments, the facades are decorated with pilasters.

The booty taken by the Cossacks from the campaigns was stored here: expensive weapons, clothes, money, as well as regimental flags.

Nearby is the grave of an unknown Cossack.